Empty Seat at Nobel Peace Prize

Yang Speech at Third Annual Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy

SPEECH by Dr. Yang Jianli Geneva, March 15, 2011 Good afternoon fellow delegates and distinguished guests. Thank you for the opportunity to address you here today. I am compelled to begin with a call for a moment of silence for the Japanese people, whose unimaginable...

Dr. Yang Jianli to Address Tomorrow’s Geneva Rights Summit

Yang Jianli, the world-renowned Chinese dissident and survivor of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, will join other former prisoners of conscience March 15-16 for the third annual Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy. Dr. Yang, who served a five-year jail...

Dissident upbeat on China after Nobel Peace Prize

South China Morning Post by: Verna Yu Jan 01, 2011 Yang Jianli was a PhD student in the US when the Tiananmen democracy movement broke out in 1989. Keen to participate, he went back and witnessed the June 4 crackdown. He said that was "a point of no return" in his...

China warns Nobel winner’s kin against going to Oslo

By Ashish Kumar Sen The Washington Times 4:59 p.m., Wednesday, December 1, 2010 Chinese authorities are warning the family and friends of jailed democracy activist Liu Xiaobo against traveling to Oslo to receive the Nobel Peace Prize on his behalf and have stepped up...